Fickle

[Balthazar]

Balthazar decided not to any further on the Isola-subject, when Leo himself took up the one concerning Jean and Leo's talk on the phone. But it just made him even more confused, and he started to wonder if Jean hadn't just fucked with him.
"She did, huh?"
Balthazar went into the pizza place after Leo and the kid, feeling very out of place, not being used to places like this.
"To me she said that she was worried about you, that something had happened. She even said she thought that Sarah might be back."

[Leo]

Leo payed for the pizza and sat down, watching as Charley ate. The clerk asked if he wanted one as well, but he declined. He then listened and chuckled a bit at the thought of Sarah being back, like she would dare to do that. The kid looked at them for a moment, listening, then opened his mouth.
"She said some girl was dead." he said, still with some pizza in his mouth. Leo gave him a raised a bit of a stare but then laid it off and nodded, rather quiet. It wasn't that he didn't know that she died, he watched her die after all and got rid of the body. It was just that Jean had to remind him, it did some what hurt.

[Balthazar]

Balthazar looked from the kid, and then back to Leo. At first he did not really know what he was talking about, but after a second or two he realized who he meant. He had tried not to take too much, and he felt sorry for that. He shook his head in regret.
"I'm sorry."
There wasn't much more to say. He guessed that affected Leo, a new vampire, more than Balthazar though.

[Leo]

"It's okay, she died from the cold" Leo said between clinched teeth. The kid looked at them both, very confused. Leo gave him a swift look, wondering if he would be the death of this human as well. Then he just sighed and tapped his fingers on the table in a short rythm.
"So...I heard you've been out looking for a drummer?"

[Balthazar]

Balthazar gave Leo a doubtful look. He did not believe that it was the cold that had killed the poor girl. It might have been one of the reasons, but not likely what really killed her. But he appreciated the lie, even though it seemed Leo was the one needing it.
To his question he answered, as he stared at the drumming fingers.:
"Yes. You can't have a band without a drummer."

[Leo]

The kid seemed to get used to being confused by the two men and turned his attention to the pizza again. Leo thought for a moment that it was rather amusing to see humans eat. He then turned to Bazz.
"So...any luck?" he didn't really know what to talk about, since an hour ago he had thought he was finshed with the band, and honestly he didn't know what he wanted with it anymore.

[Balthazar]

Balthazar too looked at the kid eating his pizza, but did not find it very amusing. He had never eaten a pizza, but it looked disgusting, fat dripping all over the place and the smell wasn't too pleasant either. He looked away, to Leo again.
"I was just on my way to a gig, to check a drummer out, when Jean called. But I guess he was rubbish anyway. So that's a no."

[Leo]

The kid had almost finished the pizza and was starting to look rather full. Leo was quite surprised that such a little body could contain so much pizza.
"Okay, ehm...sorry 'bout that... But I might just have a suggestion for a drummer" He said with a smirk, though he wasn't too sure about this one, he hadn't heard the person play for real.

[Balthazar]

Balthazar couldn't really understand why Leo let the kid eat pizza. The blood of a person that ate a lot of fast food tasted awful. But perhaps this was just a one time thing. The way the kid devoured the pizza, one might think so.
He raised an eyebrow.
"Oh?"
Leo suggesting a drummer, this must be quite good. But he did not get his hopes up to much, before he had heard more.

[Leo]

Leo lowered his gaze for a moment, maybe he'd mentioned this a tad too early.
"Yeah...but I'll get back to you on that later, okay? I'm not quite sure yet.."
He felt like he was speaking in riddles, but really, he didn't know what this drummer was capable of. He just had a good feeling about this.

[Balthazar]

He was glad that he hadn't gotten his hopes up. A result of the argument with Leo he guessed. Not that he had been really trusting Leo before anyway.
"Yeah, sure."
A bit surprised about the small sign that this wasn't the last he would hear or see from Leo. But he had to confess, happy too. But again, he tried to not get his hopes up. He may still be angry with him, but he knew he could not just forget about him.
Balthazar looked at the kid again, and had to ask Leo, because he had some doubts. He seemed a bit to young for it to feel right, but as a young vampire, he himself had had that young humans. But then again, that was many years ago, and it was his sires will. And also, this seemed so not Leo, but he had changed.
He nodded slightly at the kid.
"So... Is this someone you've... 'taken in'."
If this was not so, he tried to be subtle in front of the kid, and hoped that Leo would understand.

[Leo]

Leo totally didn't get what Bazz was talking about.
"Uhm... yea...I mean he lives with me more or less..." he thought it was a pretty stupid question, honestly. Or was he referring to something else? Leo gave Bazz a questioning look and made a rather disgusted face since he didn't like the thought of exposing an innocent child do any area of the vampire world.

[Balthazar]

Balthazar squinted his eyes and leaned forward a bit as he though that that was a response of a Leo not knowing what Baz had been talking about. And when he made that disgusted face, he just assumed that he had got it. So he just shrugged his shoulders, leaned back again, and changed the subject.
"You've cut your hair."
He simply said, with no indication to whether he liked it or not.

[Leo]

Leo got a slight twitch in his eye as certain mental images came to mind. As his head got clear from the images he made a sour face.
Bazz's question was a welcome change of topic.
"Well...I felt I was in need of change"... he just said, stroking the back of his head that now had mere centimeters o hair instead of dreads. He wondered slightly if he'd ever get used to not having them. On the other hand, when he cut his hair he didn't want to be Leo any more...

[Balthazar]

Balthazar just nodded slowly as response. Wasn't the saying 'If you have nothing good to say, then say nothing at all'? It would grow out quite quickly again, but he guessed that if Leo insisted on getting it trimmed, he could get used to it.
"New haircut, new apartment. What else is new?"
Because he just assumed that wasn't it.